7 December 2018 - Chinese Vice Premier Sun Chunlan on Friday stressed the need for centralized medicine procurement and market-oriented drug prices in an effort to reduce the burden on patients.
Sun called for efforts to lower medicine prices to reasonable levels and accelerate the transformation and upgrading of the pharmaceutical industry, at a meeting held in Beijing.
Sun called on public hospitals to motivate medical workers in various areas including the adjustment of medical service fees and implementation of performance-based salaries.